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That the intelligence community believes vladimir putin would want to put in power inside ukraine if he were able to accomplish his goals and remove zelenskyy from power? >> yeah, lets just first start that thats a big if. zelenskyy doesnt seem like hes going anywhere. even if kyiv falls zelenskyy still shares the support of the people and most importantly the military right now. >> right. >> i think its pretty -- im sure thats what he wants to do and theres a minority party in russia that im su...

So in the last few days we have seen more and more reporting about low morale hampering russian forces in ukraine. it seems many of putins troops simply had no idea what type of conflict they were being sent into, some combination of food shortages, inadequate supplies and then out and out lack of belief in the russian mission in ukraine has pushed a significant number of soldiers to lay down their weapons and give up. to discuss all of this and the latest developments in ukraine i am pleased to...

Turning to and aleppo terror campaign, that before its done, will destroy much of the country. i think down the line, were gonna find nato, and is gonna find this unbearable to sit and watch this happen. >> unbearable, and youre saying that theyve not had much success, at least at the speed that you would think vladimir putin might want. and colonel jack, president zelenskyy today said that we have now hardened the empty buildings in our capital of kyiv. if they want to take over kyiv, theyre go...

Those weapons. but if they use them against civilians inside ukraine, it will cause mass casualties. and i will think that will trigger, very likely, intervention on the ground and in the air by nato. >> okay, colonel jack jacobs, general barry mccaffrey, thank you both is always. appreciate your time. >> next, i wanna go inside a humanitarian crisis unfolding across ukraine, and show you what life is like for droves seeking shelter and bomb shelters. plus, nato allies pressing putin to end this...

One of the things that he is working on doing is completely sealing off the black sea approaches to ukraine, so that there cant be any evacuations, and there wont be any resupply and the south. and trying to do exactly the same thing and the east. i think he single-minded about achieving that. one of the reasons is, he is participating and unrelenting bombardment of the cities is that the russian army was unsuccessful in marching and on opposed. and so, he just unleashed the entire army on the e...

Where and how that is largely being left in the dark, to try and keep that under the veil of secrecy, and hopefully allow those shipments to get to the hands that they need to. >> with the progress that russia has so far, or lack thereof, kyiv is an example on the lack. but if you look at the southern and western regions of ukraine, i was just mentioning earlier whether general and the colonel, that now they have a language from russia to crimea. how is putin doing? what is a win for him? >> whe...

>> you know, each time we were on air, and now that you are on day 18 here, colonel, the question is when might something change? now, when we pull up them off today, we can see that it is uninterrupted. a language from rush all the way to crimea, it appears now with the issue of mariupol, for instance the city i was mentioning. now it is largely in russian control of the moment. is this an actual milestone, potentially a military off ramp for putin here? these accomplish something? >> i think t...

Him. >> that was, as you say, an intentional choice, colonel jack pointed that out too, an intentional choice by the family to make this about colin powell the man, the family man, the friend, and not the diplomat. >> and the army quintet, the brass quintet, the military escort. its terribly moving. >> im so grateful for you being here, its not an easy day for a lot of folks who knew colin powell. were grateful to all of you for joining us on our special coverage on msnbc honoring colin powell, ...

He didnt suffer foolishness gladly. and i remember, you know, once having -- it wasnt a heated discussion, it was, you know, a robust discussion with him in which we disagreed on politics. and at the end, when we sort of agreed that we would disagree, he turned to me and said, so, we good? thats something he always did, at the end, he wanted to know, yes, we had this disagreement, we did not see eye to eye, and perhaps wont, but you and me are good, right? and thats very much the way he was. tha...

Worked in a factory at the pepsi plant when he was a kid and came from an immigrant family. we should note, too, if you heard some of the helicopter noise in the background, we are expecting president biden to arrive shortly. we knew he is enroute from the white house. he will and will arrive and we believe that the service will begin not too long after that. "the new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker is joining us now. i wonder if you could speak to that idea that secretar...